[josm-dev] restrict mass-editing?

[Shaun McDonald]

On 31 Mar 2009, at 11:45, Jonathan Bennett wrote:

> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> currently it is possible to "select all" and then set a tag for tens
>> of thousands of objects at the same time. Do you think we should do  
>> an
>> alert box saying "you are editing 12.345 objects. are you sure you  
>> want
>> this?" - or maybe just disallow it altogether?
>
> Or remove "Select All" completely? Are there any legitimate uses for
> this? I've only ever used it to find out how much of an area I've
> contributed :)
>

Which can be done in a similar way in ITO World's OSM Mapper tool.

I certainly think a warning would be useful when a large proportion of  
the objects are selected and you do changes, would be useful.

Shaun